Not surprisingly, Hannity, Ingraham, Dobbs are trying their damnedest to spin the IG report as a win for Trump...unreal. ================================================================ https://www.salon.com/2019/12/10/fo...iracies-about-the-russia-probe-we-were-right/ Fox hosts spin IG report that debunks their own conspiracies about the Russia probe: “We were right" Though the report soundly undercut the core of the network's defense of Trump, its hosts declared victory, anyway 1 DECEMBER 10, 2019 2:47PM (UTC) Fox News hosts went into spin mode after the release of the Justice Department inspector general report they had hyped for years disproved many right-wing talking points about the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. The 432-page report released by Inspector General Michael Horowitz criticized the FBI for mishandling surveillance applications for former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page but refuted President Donald Trump’s and his defenders’ repeated allegations that the FBI had “spied” on his 2016 campaign and the investigation was launched out of officials’ bias against then-candidate Trump. Despite the report soundly undercutting the core of Fox News’ defense of the president, the network’s hosts declared victory anyway on Monday. "Everything we have been reporting for years was dead on accurate," declared host Sean Hannity. "We were right every step of the way." Hannity seized on the statement issued by U.S. Attorney John Durham, who was tasked by Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the origins of the Russia probe, criticizing the inspector general’s report and its findings on Monday. "Clearly, he is signaling they have found evidence of criminal conspiracy with the intent needed legally to warrant a prosecution," Hannity said, despite no evidence of that in Horowitz’s nearly two-year probe. “Premeditated fraud perpetrated repeatedly on the FISA court with all the unverifiable lies from Hillary Clinton's bought and paid for dirty Russian dossier,” Hannity claimed. “Nothing but outright lies, corruption, abuse of power, a massive political bias, omission on multiple occasions of exculpatory evidence.” Hannity warned that the “deep state” should “understand they are all in deep legal jeopardy,” echoing the QAnon conspiracy theory. That would be news to former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page and former FBI counsel James Baker, who all declared themselves vindicated by the IG report. "I think the president should apologize to us,” Baker told CNN. “The conclusions are quite clear that the president's statements over these past several years were all wrong — that there was no hoax, there was no conspiracy to overthrow anybody, there was no sedition, there was no treason, there was no evidence of any of that." Other Fox News hosts who slammed the IG report accurately noting that it refuted allegations of bias behind the FBI probe but suggested that Durham’s report would vindicate them. "How can you determine there was no political bias and the FBI is handling the Russia probe?" host Laura Ingraham asked. "It defies not just common sense but the evidence, as Horowitz himself developed. Nevertheless, Horowitz gave Democrats the talking point they craved." But Ingraham insisted that “Democrats should not breathe a sigh of relief tonight.” "The bottom line is that the forthcoming Durham report, which the attorney general has been assisting him on, is far more comprehensive in scope," Ingraham said. "We're gonna learn, I think, a lot more in the coming months. And despite the Democrat talking points and the facile coverage today, this IG report has provided us with a partial view of the corruption at the FBI and the politicization of the 'Deep State.’” Fox Business host Lou Dobbs claimed that the IG report showed the “deep state’s awesome control” of the government. “After 621 days investigating some of the clearest abuses of power by the Obama-era intelligence agency, the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz declared he was unable to find any political bias behind the surveillance of the 2016 Trump campaign,” Dobbs complained. “All this is more evidence of the ‘radical Dimms’ and the Deep State’s awesome control of our permanent bureaucracy of our federal government.” “We have an inspector general who should be a countervailing influence within the Justice Department and the FBI,” he added. “Who should be bringing accountability to this corrupt cabal of agents and officials of both the FBI and the Justice Department. Instead, what we have got here, in 434 pages without exception, is a whitewash.”
In case you didn't notice, the article quoted Hannity, Ingraham, and Dobbs. Would you prefer the links to be from Fox ?...if so, I'll gladly post them, although it won't really change things. But that's pretty much typical for Trump and his followers..."most" tend to either deny the facts or without merit, simply attack the news source
It's funny that you brought this up as last night I was channel surfing and thought I would stop and check out Faux News and it happened to be Hannity with guests Jim Jordan and Devin "snake in the grass" Nunez and after reading several parts of the IG report it's as if Faux had an alternative report the way they were describing it and declaring how this completely cleared trump of any wrong doing. Makes you wonder when it's one news network saying one thing and all the others saying something different. Mind boggling.
Read the Obama appointed IG's report, note that he interviewed nobody central to the subject of criminal behavior by the DOJ and FBI such as the victims PapaD, Carter Page, then try to find a way to justify his "conclusions". A limited-scope sham to provide cover for the Deep State in advance of criminal indictments coming from the Durham Criminal Investigation. No informed person is swayed by this nonsense.
Deny, deny, deny...so the "informed" people appointed their own guy to investigate but are pissed off that he concluded that Trump's conspiracy theory was BS...so Trump and the "informed" people then decided to spin it into something else in order to save face. Typical....SSDD.
Faux News isn't even much of a news source anymore...instead, they're simply a propaganda channel. And it's hilarious to me that there are some twisted individuals who spend 4-5 hours or more everyday watching it.
Salon is better than Fox News. I see Salon contributors as guests on numerous news shows but I've never seen a Fox celebrity invited to a news show as a panel member or as a guest. So, I say, Fox News, OMFG.
Salon.com has released multiple articles by one of their pedophile writers (yes, really) defending pedophilia. They are disgusting and horribly discredited. I’ll post a couple links for you. Say what you want about Fox or whoever, fair enough, but Salon IS NOT an outlet I would be caught dead defending.
I wouldn't be caught dead defending Alex Jones. Is there a creepier person than Jones out there in the public eye. Okay, not counting Trump.
I believe Pulitzers are the bar you have claimed to insist on for your sources to be considered credible. Have you lowered your standards now?
No, I never said that and you simply can't find a quote to that effect. What I said was that the Pulitzer was probably the highest award for print journalism excellence. I never said a source couldn't be credible without a Pulitzer. There are other awards. Let me repeat, Fox News has ZERO awards for journalism excellence. Do you wonder why? Would you like for me to explain?
